1. Z0STEK0P8. 161 



Adult. General colour above grass-green ; -sving-coverts like the 

 back ; median and greater coverts dusky, extcrnall}' grass-green like 

 the back ; bastard-wing feathers blackish ; primary-coverts and 

 quills dusky brown, edged with grass-green ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts like the back ; tail-feathers dusky, margined with grass- 

 green ; crown of the head like the back ; lores and base of the fore- 

 head a little yellower than the back ; ring of feathers round the eye 

 silky white ; in front of the eye a dusky spot extending in a narrow 

 line below the eye ; ear-coverts grass-green ; throat and fore neck 

 bright sulphur-yellow ; breast, sides of body, and flanks ruddy or 

 pale vinous bi'own ; abdomen whiter ; thighs pale yellow ; under 

 tail-coverts bright yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, 

 tinged with yellow on the edge of the wing ; quills below dusky ; 

 inner edge of quills white. Total length 4 inches, culmen 0*6, 

 wing 2-35, tail 1-65, tarsus 0-7. 



Hab. Japan. 



a. Ad. sk. Japan. Eyton Collection. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Japan. Gould Collection. 



d. Ad. sk. Nagasaki, Japan. Purchased. 



e. Ad. sk. Hakodadi. H. Pryer, Esq. [C.]. 



11. Zoster ops eryihropleura. 



Zosterops chloronotus, Schrenk, lieis. Amurl, ii. p. 365 (nee V., 



7iec Gould). 

 Zosterops japonica (nee T. i§- S.), Swinh. Ibis, 1861, pp. 35, 331, 



1862, p. 318. 

 Zosterops erythropleura, Sioinh. Ibis, 1863, pp. 204, 298; Hartl. 



J. f. 0. 186.5, p. 13 ; Grarj, Hand-l. B. i. p. 163, no. 2152 (1869); 



Swinh. Ibis, 1870, p. 448; id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 350; Gould, 



B. Asia, part xxiii. (1871) ; Taczan. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. 



p. 135 (1875) ; David ^ Oustalet, Ois. Cliine, p. 85 (1877). 



Adult female. General colour above pale grass-green, a little 

 brighter and more yellowish green on the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts ; lesser wing-coverts like the mantle ; median and greater 

 coverts ashy brown, externally edged with yellowish green ; bastard 

 wing dusky ; primary-coverts dusky, with narrow greenish edges ; 

 quills dusky, edged with ycUowish green, a httle paler on the 

 primaries ; tail-feathers dusky, with yellowish-green margins ; crown 

 of the head like the back, but a little yellower; feathers round 

 the eye silky white ; in front of the eye a dusky spot, running 

 back in a narrow line below the latter ; ear-coverts like the crown ; 

 cheeks and throat bright sulphur- yeUow ; fore neck and chest light 

 bluish grey ; breast and abdomen pui-e white, as well as the sides of 

 the body ; flanks with a patch of vinous chestnut ; thighs white, 

 dusky behind ; under tail-coverts bright sulpliur-yeUow ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white, with a slight tinge of yeUow ; quills 

 below dusky ; inner edge of quills white; "bill brown above, bluish 

 below ; legs bluish grey ; iris hazel " (David). Total length 3-5 

 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2*35, taU l°4y, tarsus O'G. 



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